PoE 2 Witch Deep Dive and Gameplay

Summons Reviving Skeletal Warriors.

Skeletal Warriors are tanky front-liners with the ability to hold aggro on enemies.

Summons long-ranged, Reviving Skeletal Snipers that can fire a gas arrow on Command.

Skeletal Snipers have very consistent damage output and also give access to powerful poison support gems thanks to the active skill.

Raises spikes of bone from the earth in front of you, damaging enemies. The bones of Corpses in the area are ripped out and reassembled into short-lived Bone Construct Minions that fight for you.

When you have Corpses Unearth is extremely powerful, but without corpses the skill is very weak. This makes it incredibly powerful for clearing packs of enemies but much weaker against isolated tanky mobs.

Summons bomb-throwing, Reviving Skeletal Arsonists that can detonate other Minions on Command.

Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike to send nearby Minions into a frenzy as long as the spike remains, causing them to use skills more quickly.

Very powerful when paired with Unearth minions and Skeletal Sniper poison clouds.

Consumes a Corpse or Poewr Charge to create a short-lived Zombie. Zombies created from Power Charges are Empowered.

Raise Zombie is similar to Unearth with reliance on corpses. It does take longer to ramp as you can only use one corpse at a time but it has the added bonus of being usable against isolated enemies if you have power charges.

Summons Reviving Skeletal Frost Mages that can be Commanded to cast icy explosions.

Very powerful in AoE, but the freeze effect prevents the creation of corpses.

Summons aggressive, Reviving Skeletal Reavers that can enrage on Command.

The highest damage minion in single target, pairs well with priests.

Summons Reviving Skeletal Storm Mages that can call down a lightning storm on dead Skeletons on Command.

Fantastic AoE, likely going to be the best summon for AoE farming.

Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike to shield your Minions while the spike remains. The shield absorbs all damage from the next Hit each minion takes, then explodes.

Very strong against bosses as you are able to protect your minions from massive slams that are commonly found in boss fights.

Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike, extracting a Power Charge over a short duration.

Has various powerful synergies with other Witch skills, can be very powerful in the right build but is conditional.

Summons a hard-hitting, Reviving Skeletal Brutes that can Stun Primed enemies.

Power level is very unknown due to limited testing. Due to low stun generation on the Witch this seems like a weak minion, but it's hard to tell.

Summons Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and revive fallen skeletons.

Very powerful in the right minion build due to being able to revive your minions on a 4 second CD. The healing can be powerful in the right build.

Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos damage over time.
If the enemy dies while affected by the Contagion, it and all other Chaos damage over time Debuffs spread to nearby enemies and refresh their durations.
Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by the Contagion will cause the minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.

Very powerful in AOE, bread and butter of early Witch leveling.

Fires a projectile that applies a powerful Chaos damage over time debuff to enemies it hits.

Incredible single target, pairs well with Contagion as Essence Drain easily kills the first target.

Raises a Totem that bombards enemies afflicted by Chaos damage over time Debuffs.

This was unable to be tested but is likely extremely powerful. The real tell of how good Dark Effigy will be is the support gems that it can use.

Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Chaos resistance.

Incredibly powerful in any Chaos focused build.

Marks a Corpse with a profane rune, dealing Chaos damage over time to nearby enemies. When the ritual is complete the Corpse is consumed and you gain a Power Charge.

Great damage, and Power Charge generation. Will likely be part of some meta builds.

Detonates Curses on enemies in an area, causing explosions of Chaos damage but removing the Curse.

Hexblast will definitely be the focus of some builds, but will require specific setups to work.

Raises a ring of bone spikes around you. The spikes are destroyed when enemies touch them, damaging and Pinning those enemies.

Great utility in keeping enemies from surrounding you. High damage, long CC.

Channel to conjure a swarm of bone spikes in the air, then release to fire them at enemies and explode.
Shrapnel lodges in enemies hit, each causing the next Attack against that enemy to deal additional damage. Consumes your Power Charges to cause much larger explosions.

Extremely powerful skill with fantastic synergies. The secondary effect is fantastic as the damage actually scales with whatever triggers it. This means the damage will count as minion damage if they proc it.

Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, making them deal less damage.

Very useful for some easy access to straight damage reduction. The duration is a bit low, but this can be fixed with the right support gems.

Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, reducing their Armour.

Very strong in any physical damage focused build.

Causes a Corpse to violently explode, damaging surrounding enemies.

The great thing about Detonate Dead is that the damage scales with the maximum life of enemies, meaning it will work in any build. This skill has the potential to be incredibly powerful.